Yes, this is about five days late, considering we’re talking as if we’re still in 2011 but alas, here we are in 2012 and our first podcast of the year of the end of the world. Dale (Digital Doodles), Colleen (Mary Ostler Wood Butchery & Other Stuff) and I look ahead to the heaps of movies opening and expanding in January.
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While selling his wares at the local farmer’s market, Ned is approached by the local cop who gives Ned a sap story about a bad week that he needs unwinding from. He’s looking for a bit of pot and after some haggling, Ned gives in and offers the guy a bag-o-weed. The cop forces $20 on Ned before arresting him for the sale of narcotics. Oops. Ned heads off to jail where he spends eight glorious months working and making new friends. Upon his release he returns to the farm he shared with his girlfriend, a cookie cutter modern hippy who calls everyone “Dude,” to find that he’s been replaced by a guy even more clueless than he is. With his meagre belongings in tow, he heads to the city to bunk with his mother and to find some way to raise the $1,000 he needs to rent the chicken barn at the back of the farm all so he can be closer to his dog Willy Nelson who his girlfriend has, essentially, taken hostage.
Co-written by Scott and Martin Petit, this plot is one that will have you shaking your head. 
The story picks up just before the big day. Bella and Edward are finally tying the knot. Edward makes a remark that he’s been waiting for this day for his entire existence. So have the fans though some were more excited to see what happens after the wedding. The honey moon to Isle Esme was going to be a thing of romance to titillate the senses of pre-teens and grown women and for the most part, it’s successful – until Bella discovers she’s pregnant (not as uncommon as you may think) and the duo jet sett back to Forks where Dr. Carlisle can keep an eye on Bella and the baby that is killing her from the inside out.
Flashback to 1991. Lost Soulz is the biggest band in the world. Their debut album has sold more copies than any other debut but their second album has flopped. The record company has given the band a year to deliver a record’s worth of songs or the band is done. Desperate and nearly at the end of the contract deadline, Spyder goes home to re-unite with Eric Genson, his best friend and early collaborator and we soon find that Spyder took off years before with Eric’s songs under his belt. Eric is pissed but rather than being angry that Spyder stole his work, he’s angry that his best friend never thought to ask him if he wanted to go with him to LA.
With few details on either Benoit or Logan, the opening few scenes of Mitrani’s film plays with viewer expectation and as we wait for Benoit, the potential rapist, to strike, it soon becomes apparent that he’s not the one with troubled tendencies. On their third evening together, Kate shows Benoit her gun. At first he refuses but pushed by Kate and curious, he follows her lead, points and squeezes the trigger. The firing takes the two by surprise but immediately Kate starts to freak out, explaining that she’s going to lose her job if it’s discovered that the bullet was fired from her gun, a gun she’s not supposed to be carrying while off-duty.
One of the masters of the spy genre is John le Carré. Having left a job at MI6 after the success of “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,” in 1974 le Carré released “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.” The first of a trilogy, the novel was quickly adapted for television and by 1979, 
Julien Magnat’s feature film debut stars Milla Jovovich as Anna Merchant, a happily in love elementary school teacher and the only one of her friends involved in a long term relationship. The trio of girlfriends are out late one night and Anna decides to walk home after a night of partying but on her way, she walks in on a man and woman having sex in public. When the man slices the woman’s throat, Anna’s cell phone happens to ring and now Anna is the object of attention for a murderer. She manages to get away but not under the best of circumstances: she falls off the side of the bridge, hits her head on the way down and wakes up a week alter in the hospital.
